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My feelings towards feathered dinoaurs
7 years ago
Now I this is how I feel about this subject, its my opinion and please respect it as such, I respect how y'all believe stuff, so please do the same. If you are one of those people that are easily triggered by different opinions or believe everyone else is wrong but you, again there are other pages to go to,and no this isn't a conspiracy theory this is just me thinking science isn't perfect now onto my thoughts.
Over the years since I was little I have believed dinosaurs were reptiles, and that is how they always were for years, but then scientists "found" evidence that said otherwise and everyone just believed it, didn't try to say they might be wrong. I believe science is far from perfect the time of the Dinosaurs were so far from now that its possible that a bird like creature got fossilized by a dinosaur and therefore made us believe that dinosaurs had feathers, now you might say carbon dating would prove that those feathers were from dinos, not entirely, I found out the man who created the carbon dating system had used his system to date the earth and found out that the earth wasnt as old as they had thought previously, but everyone thought he was wrong, the person who gave them the system to date stuff was wrong because he found evidence against that. So why not something similar happen with dinosaurs, maybe we got it all wrong, again dinosaurs were so long ago how can we confirm 100% certain that our facts on them are right when we have never seen them alive and in person, to gather proof we would need a time machine, also I believe that just because their skeletal structure has similarities with modern birds shouldnt mean they are related, maybe reptiles back then had to have that kind of structure to live and move, remember their atmosphere was far different then what we have now, so until we have actually seen dinos and how they looked back then, I will always consider them leather scaled skinned reptiles.
Over the years since I was little I have believed dinosaurs were reptiles, and that is how they always were for years, but then scientists "found" evidence that said otherwise and everyone just believed it, didn't try to say they might be wrong. I believe science is far from perfect the time of the Dinosaurs were so far from now that its possible that a bird like creature got fossilized by a dinosaur and therefore made us believe that dinosaurs had feathers, now you might say carbon dating would prove that those feathers were from dinos, not entirely, I found out the man who created the carbon dating system had used his system to date the earth and found out that the earth wasnt as old as they had thought previously, but everyone thought he was wrong, the person who gave them the system to date stuff was wrong because he found evidence against that. So why not something similar happen with dinosaurs, maybe we got it all wrong, again dinosaurs were so long ago how can we confirm 100% certain that our facts on them are right when we have never seen them alive and in person, to gather proof we would need a time machine, also I believe that just because their skeletal structure has similarities with modern birds shouldnt mean they are related, maybe reptiles back then had to have that kind of structure to live and move, remember their atmosphere was far different then what we have now, so until we have actually seen dinos and how they looked back then, I will always consider them leather scaled skinned reptiles.
That being said, tyrannosaurus skin imprints are found with scales covering their limbs, tail and underbelly near identical to komodo dragons. It is true that if they had protofeathers, they would've disintegrated long before fossilization could take place. That part we'll never know. But we actually have far more evidence of scaled skin than we do fully feathered bodies on most species. I think the discovery of raptors and those in the raptor family with true feathers is what sparked people applying the same template to EVERY dinosaur.
I just think it's important to make the distinction that SOME definitely had feathers, but that doesn't apply to all
It was recently discovered that adult T. rex's were most likely all scaled, but for the smaller critters below 3 tonns in mass, feathers would have proven more beneficial than a hindrance. As such, I personally don't find it hard to believe that not all, but most smaller to medium theropods were most likely covered in some form of primitive feathering.